Welcome to the personal website of Rahiel Kasim. Here you can read about the
things I find interesting. The pages linked below should be useful, they
comprise of tutorials, demos, essays and other helpful information. On my
blog you’ll find writings conveying my opinions and experiences.

Miscellaneous

Mirroring my git repositories

I keep most of my code on GitHub and I’m happy with the service, but I wanted to
also host my repos myself. Using something like GitLab would be excessive, I
don’t need any of the project management features, only something that can
display git info and lets users browse the source tree. The interface I’ve seen
many projects use is cgit. The Linux kernel uses it, so it must be
good!

I first needed something that would fetch my repos and keep them updated. I also
didn’t want to manually list my repos, I wanted something I could set up to
track my username so that it would automatically get new repositories I’d create
on GitHub. Of course I ended up making this program myself. I called it
giternity, a contraction of git and eternity.

Another advantage of having all code on the same server as this website is that
I can easily render project READMEs on the website, for example the one for
telegram-send. I think a separate landing page for software is more
appropriate for users, as the GitHub page for a project emphasizes code while
users are mainly interested in simply using the software.

This effort resulted with all my repos hosted at git.cpu.re, the new
giternity package and a tutorial explaining how you can achieve the
same.